Collar button



Sept. 4, 1923.

c. H. LQNsDALE' cLLAR BUTTON Filed July 12, 1922 gri/UMNO@ (Tf/.Landda le.

Patented Sept. 4, 1923.

UNITED STATES CLAIR H. LONSDALE, OF FORT SALE HOUSTON, TEXAS.

COLLAR BUTTON.

Application led July 12, 1922.

.To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAIR H. LoNsDALn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Sam Houston, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lCollar Buttons, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to improvements in collar buttons and has as its primary object to provide a button which will facilitate the application of the collar to the neck band of the shirt and the drawing` of the tie through the collar. l-leretofore it has been customary to provide neck ties with a strip of some smooth linished cloth along the inner sides of their intermediate portions to adapt the ties to slip freely through the collar folds in applying the tie, or mea-ns has been pro-vided in connection with the collar for this purpose. The present invention, however, has as its primary object to provide a collar button embodying means adapting the tie to slip freely past the same and which button will furthermore, as stated, facilitate the application of the collar to the neck band of the shirt.

In the accompanying drawing: n

Figure l is a perspective view illustrating the application of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view through the collar button, collar, and the neck band of the shirt and substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of member of t-he button;

Fig. 4L is a perspective view of the socket member of the button;

F ig. 5 is a detail sectional view through the button, the members thereof being assembled.

The button embodying` the invention coinprises a socket member indicated in general by the numeral l and a stud member' indicated in general by the numeral 2. The socket member embodies a head 8 and a shank Il in which is provided the socket 5 and the wall of which shank at its outer side and outer end is formed with an outstanding bead 6 spaced from the head 3. The head 3 and bead 6 adapt the socket member to be assembled with the neck band of the shirt by inserting the beaded end of the shank flthrough the buttonhole at the stud Serial No. 574,403.

the back of the neck band in the saine manner that an ordinary collar button is applied.

The stud member 2 comprises a head 7 vfrom the rear side of which projects a shank S terminating in a snap head "9 which is `being gripped between the said head 7 and the beaded end of the socket member l. The outer or forward side of the head 7 is smooth and free from obstructions and the same is preferably rounded at its margin so that a neck tie may readily Islide over the said facev of the head. In order that the. tie may be supported in such a manner that it will not work down upon .the collar and be exposed at the rear thereof, the head 7 is formed at its lower portion with a rearwardly deflected lip 1l over which the lower edge of the tie will engage when the tie is properly arranged between the collar folds.

It willbe evident from the foregoing that there is provided a button which will permit of free sliding of the neck tie between the collar folds without any likelihood of binding, and vthat the button will properly support the tie and will likewise facilitate application of the collar to the shirt and yits removal therefrom.`

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

il collar button including ashank and a head extending radially in all directions from the outer end of the shank, the out- .wardly presented face of the head being smooth and free from obstructions and rel- CLAIR H. LoNsDALE. [L s] 

